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Whether you're just into hearing about the latest weird news or if you own a business and need the latest buzz to design a shirt around, here you'll find great resources for keeping up on popular trends and great news tidbits.
What can you use weird and wacky news for?
Weird and wacky news has more value than just for entertainment. It can be profitable as well! Learn how to use the news to make money.
- Write a press release for your business that ties into the news. People searching for the news will find your release. Don't fill it with garbage - do make it relevant and useful.
- Use current events to keep your CafePress Shop full of creative new merchandise.
- Use current events, especially silly ones, to entertain and education your students. Design projects that will allow them to test real life experiences.
- Write about current events in your blog. This will also create bonus SEO as people searching for those events can find your entries.
Yahoo! Buzz
The latest BUZZ from Yahoo!
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The Buzz Machine
Learn about interesting things that are creating a BUZZ. These are new things that you can find out about before MOST other people...including your competition!
- Metadata for news
- The Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust (never heard of them) have proposed a new standar...
- It ain’t over
- It wasn't Craig's fault. It was the internet's. Almost $10 billion in annual newspaper classified re...
- Training the crowd as journalists
- In the Philippines, the ABS-CBN TV network has been training citizens – 1,000 in the first rec...
- What Google Would Do
- Is Google's OS the end of the OS – the long-predicted moment when Google and the web take over...
- Journalistic narcissism
- At the Aspen Ideas Festival this week, Andrew Sullivan said, "Journalism has become too much about j...
- A map to where?
- The UK's Independent has attempted to map the discussion about the future of newspapers. I'm not sur...
- Politics makes….
- When she pushed her dangerous agenda to change copyright law through Congress to protect her industr...
Scientific American
Other sites where you can find great lists and weird facts
- Weird News from Mercury News
- Weird things that happen around the area.
- Weird News from MiamiHerald
- Interesting things happen in the Miami area...
- ThisIsTrue.com
- Subscribe to their newsletter.
- Daily Rotten
- News you cannot possibly use.
- Bizzare News
- Absolutely weird stuff here.
- CrazyNews.net
- Crazy news and strange pictures.
- Bizarre News from abc7.com
- Strange things going on in Los Angeles
Digg: Frontpage News
News from the Exploding Cigar
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPiggyback on News to Get Publicity
Great PR artists (and yes, it's an art) have learned to piggyback on current events and weird news stories to create their own BUZZ and get the attention of PR people. The articles below will show you how to do the same thing!
- 7 Ways to Get Publicity This Summer
- Now is your chance. While the marketing and public relations experts are off enjoying their hard-earned vacations, the media are left scrambling for much needed copy. Plan ahead, and give them what they're looking for!
- How to Tie-In With News Events to Score Publicity
- It's safe to say that we live in interesting times. It seems we hardly have a breather between wars, tragedies, scandals, epidemics, circus trials and other events that capitalize the media's attention. For the business seeking publicity, the "news hole" for more traditional stories -- new product reviews, business features, offbeat promotions -- keeps shrinking as the "big story" mentality takes hold.
- No Budget For Pr? Do It Yourself With The Help Of Technology!
- Not so long ago, small businesses and non-profit organizations across the board were faced with a tough question: do we need a Web site? We know the answer to that as the majority of small businesses and non-profits offer effective sites that not only provide information but can sell products, accept online donations, and raise awareness.
- Successful Promotion is a State of Mind
- Every good marketing plan should have a section on ongoing promotion and publicity, which outlines ways of reaching your target market. These tools can do many of the same things paid advertising is supposed to do, at a fraction of the cost. With an on-going publicity strategy, you can enhance your image and bring in new business.
- Using Publicity As A Creative Marketing Tool
- Publicity is an important and often overlooked tool of creative selling; and a more cost-effective way of reaching your target audience than advertising. With the inherent third-party endorsement of the media implied in every editorial story, a news or feature article in a newspaper, magazine, or on television or radio, is an infinitely more credibly-perceived communications message than an ad or commercial. Publicists less frequently are favored with hard news stories...
- Who's Your Target Market?
- Have you ever attended a seminar expecting that it will either eliminate or reduce doubt, confusion, ignorance or fear? Most everything taught in seminars is designed to do one or more of those things. If you're like most of us, you've returned more than once from an event without the solutions you sought.
Engadget Yourself
Find out what's new and hot with technology and gadgets. It's a wonderful, widget wonderland.
- Probably-fake video of the PS3 slim surfaces
- We're pretty much assuming this video of a purportedly "stolen" PS3 slim at a street market in the P...
- BlackBerry Tours, come and get 'em on Sprint and Verizon
- If you've had you eye on the Tour, we bet you didn't forget they were going on sale today -- but jus...
- BlackBerry Storm 2 spec'd, 3G-equipped original en route to AT&T?
- You haven't forgotten about that BlackBerry Storm 2, have you? The Boy Genius Report is claiming it'...
- Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXIII: VAIO W netbook clone handily beats Sony to market
- Turns out by the time Sony went official with its inaugural VAIO W netbook, it was already old news...
- MacBook Pros with 7200RPM HDDs getting a touch too noisy?
- MacBook Pro hard disk storage really seem to be down on its luck this generation. First was the 3Gbp...
Where do you get your weird news from?
KimGiancaterino wrote...
Lots of good tips here! I'm featuring this on my Squid Angel Diary this week.
Posted June 22, 2009
LindaJM wrote...
I subscribe to Reuter's "Oddly Enough" report... and I occasionally use these news stories as inspiration for my fiction writing!
Posted April 09, 2009
packetlog wrote...
hi kimberley, nice lens. have you checked http://www.forteantimes.com/ ? it's where the weird news is !!
Posted September 23, 2008
RickPhillips wrote...
I think my lens /anomalyman -- #3 in news today - offers that Wacky element.
Posted August 15, 2008
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I'm Squidoo's Community Organizer, which means my focus is on building the community: bringing in new lensmasters, developing...
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